Work, Service, Sleep (no time for manga)

Does it seem to everyone else that life is just getting busier?

No time for anything anymore.

The things that need to get done and have to get done take up so much time, and even that seems never ending.

Oh well.

If we weren't keeping busy, we'd probably be getting into trouble.

If you're wondering how the pioneering is going, it's attempting with a mighty effort to get better.

It's hard.

It is the most fun and enjoyable thing I've ever done in my entire life.

But it's hard.

It's an amazing way to improve in your ministry, and you learn so much so fast.

At the same time, in addition to the 70 hours that are given to Jehovah, you still have to schedule in work time, study time (personal and for the meeting), meeting time, errand time, cleaning the house time, sleep time...

Oh my goodness, you get tired!

All that aside.

Recently I've been trying to reach my goal of getting a Bible study going.

This too is difficult.

First of all, actually finding those in the ministry who are sincerely interested is a challenge.

So you go back to these people that you leave literature with and try to discern whether or not they took that book because they were interested in what was beyond the cover or I'm just a cute girl and the guy wanted to be friendly.

After that, finding the people at home again is nothing short of a miracle.

Seriously, months go by.

Meanwhile, when you ask the ones you do find at home again if perhaps they might be interested in a Bible study, yet their busy, and they have their own church, and no they don't think they'd be interested in that.

And the next time when you go back and ask them if they would like to continue reading the magazines they will either say, not really no, or look at you for a second before saying that they THINK someone in the house has been reading them they're not sure, and you can still bring them if you want to.

Sir, I asked if YOU would like to continue reading them, and this is the fourth time you've told me that you THINK someone else has been reading them.

Maybe you could find out in the half month before I come back if someone actually is.

But no they wouldn't make it that easy, and relax I don't really say that, but I scream it at him as I make my way back to the car.

"And take your rotting deer heads down!!"

(one of the many reasons I wish he'd just tell me not to come back)

Then there are the several nice people who just like reading the magazines, they don't want a Bible study, their happy where they are.

Maybe they will change their mind later, so I continue to bring them magazines.

Sometimes, though rarely, you find someone who thinks a Bible study sounds pretty good.

She thinks she'd like to do that.

Three months later after trying to reach her in the morning, afternoon, and weekends, you wonder if she hasn't moved because that trash can of month old food is still sitting on the front porch since two weeks ago.

I know the garbage men come more often than that.

There are those who actually start a Bible study with you, and you get your hopes up imagining the day when the get baptized and going out in service with them...

Of course, all hopes are dashed after rescheduling your study for four months you still haven't gone over the third lesson, and when you mention we could study over the phone, but when you call she says can you call back in an hour and she never picks up again...

You know where this is going.

Absolutely nowhere.

So we persevere, all the while hoping to find at least one right-hearted person in the 1000 square miles of your territory.

So today, when I got one of my good calls at home and asked her if she might be interested in a Bible study, she said yes but...

There's always a "but."

No one has time.

I know that all to well.

But there is hope.

She sincerely seems intersted.

And her "but" didn't strike me as being too bad.

I could work with this one.

So as I continue to check up on her, I'll try my best to study with her.

Will Amanda finally get the Bible study she's been praying for?

Tune in next time.

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